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Re: [cobalt-users] HTML



I get it... it's threaded... Attached is a jpg of my screen, a picture is
worth a...

URL is http://microsoft.com  search for outlook express.



----- Original Message -----
From: "Jeff Lasman" <jblists@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Friday, March 17, 2000 10:07 AM
Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] HTML


> Greg wrote:
>
> > Outlook Express, current version. (downloaded this week)
>
> Can you give me the URL for the download, please?
>
> > To get header info, I just right click on message, highlite, cut...
>
> I don't understand; does right-clicking on the message automaticallly
> pop up the full headers?
>
> > For threading, choose View>Current View>Group Messages by Conversation.
It
> > makes it look threaded to me...?
>
> Again, for the third time in two days, a description of threading:
>
> Look at this example:
>
> Who            Subject                Date
> ====================================================
> Bill           Threading              03/16/00 04:30
> Tom            Re: Threading          03/16/00 12:15
> Joe            Re: Threading          03/16/00 18:42
> Frank          Re: Threading          03/17/00 00:17
>
> Now the hard part...
>
> We can guess that Tom responded to Bill.  Did Joe respond to Bill, or to
> Tom?  Did Frank respond to Joe, or to Tom, or to Bill?
>
> As the thread gets longer, did Frank respond to Joe's second response to
> Bill, or to Bill's third response to Tom?  That's threading.  If you've
> never used it you have no idea how much time it saves.  I put up with
> all of Netscape's problems (for example, it indents headers in a crazy
> looking format) because it threads so well.
>
> Jeff
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